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- ↑ "Housing Problem". Time magazine . July 6, 1962. Archived from the original on February 19, 2011. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
Another knell tolled for those high and far-off times last week as the auctioneer's hammer fell on the contents of The Elms, one of the last of the great houses that were still homes — until the death a year ago of Miss Julia Berwind, at approximately 95.
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